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MuseScore 3.0.5 Release

The focus of this release was performance and stability. We reached an incredible boost in optimization so MuseScore 3 is now faster than MuseScore 2, but is still powerful with the smart layout feature. The crash reporter facility introduced in MuseScore 3.0.3 lets us concentrate on fixing the most frequent crashes. MuseScore 3.0.5 introduces the patch for the crash on startup on macOS, which was reported dozens of times.

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Highlights

This update fixes dozens of issues as well as adding a few improvements.
For a complete list of changes, please see the release notes.

Improvements

The whole chord plays when iterating over notes with left-right arrows

Support more properties for fingering

Add more properties for Plugin API

Optimise New Score Wizard start time and layout calculations

Fixes

MuseScore 3.0.4 crashed on startup on macOS

Score margins and related stave positions were calculated incorrectly

Spacers worked incorrectly when interacting with page borders

Measure counting was wrong when setting a custom offset value

Keyboard navigation in Single Page view worked incorrectly

MuseScore crashed on finishing work on Windows

MuseScore crashed when changing time signature in parts

MuseScore crashed when selecting a bracket in edit mode

Performance references

Our goal is to optimize the editor so that it becomes possible to work with the scores like Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 on at least the machines with the specs like Atom Z3740 1.33GHz CPU (1062 scores), 2Gb RAM, Windows 8 32-bit.

The most complicated score we work with (and ever saw) is The Planets. We want to achieve comfortable work with such scores on the machines like i5-3210M (3826 scores), 8Gb RAM.

Important notes

If you have already installed any version of MuseScore 3 series, you should be automatically offered the opportunity to update the next time you start MuseScore. You can also update at any time by going to Help > Check for Update.

Scheduled improvements

Improving the soundfont for the one-note dynamics feature, and the release of this feature

Improving the script testing facility which allows us to cover more scenarios with automated tests

FWIW, the mixer size issue is not fully understood, but from what I can tell, it only affects certain systems with certain scaling settings in the OS, and it's not entirely clear yet if the problem is with the OS itself and how it handles those particular scaling settings, with the Qt libraries we use for interfacing with the OS, or within MuseScore. And as far as I know, no developer can yet reproduce this. So it would if someone who can reproduce this and has development experience could volunteer to take a look...

In case the issue is not fully understood I have attached an example. The cursor can not reach the bottom of the mixer panel in order to make it smaller. Using: OS: Windows 10 (10.0), Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore version (64-bit): 3.0.5.5992, revision: 58dd23d. Device: Asus ZenBook UX430UA-GV535T (14" screen). Scaling 150%. Also the size of the Play Panel is absurd (large), but at least it is possible to reduce its size to what one wants.

The scaling indeed could become an issues sometimes when one deals with Qt based application. Btw, try to reduce height of the Mixer by collapsing the top controls pressing the "arrow" bar (see the attached picture). After that, you will be able to shorten the Mixer using top edge of the widget.

Indeed after collapsing, one a able to manipulate the mixer smaller, so that the bottom can be seen. After expanding the whole process has to start again. Scaling to 100% is not useful as I can not read the screen anymore..

I use Ubuntu Studio 18.04.2 LTS (64 bit Linux), and this issue, probably, is present with some "Window Style" (from the "Ubuntu Configuration Manager").

Whatever, in that panel, you can go to the "Appearance" tab, subtab "Kind of Characters", and there you can change the PPP value (the visual size of a lot of things into the screen). This will help you.

I don't work with WIndows or Mac, but I guess there should be some control about PPP, somewhere into the "Windows Control Panel".

I have the same issue with the Style menu, e.g. the header and footer screen : unable to reach the bottom of the screen. I didn't have this issue in version 2. I'd love to go back to that version but then can't use files saved in version 3.

With Windows10, have you tried with a custom scale, for example, 145%?
(This was successful for two French users who had the same or close screen size.)

To do this, right-click on your computer screen -> Display settings -> Scaling and layout -> click (option written in blue): "Advanced scaling settings."
You arrive in another window (image below).
In the input field, (bottom of the page), you can enter a value between 100 and 150%

However to my dismay this solution produces more serious problems in Windows than it solves: Every time I do something with text I get a large rectangular grey box across my screen. So this option is not workable at all. I had to go back to the 150% scaling.j

K no offence but I like reeeeeally hate musescore three. The new automatic positioning of lyrics and stuff doesn't work well when I want to skip to a certain part of my score and press play, it glitches, and I hear this annoying noise whenever I put a note down.

If you have a score that is not playing back correctly, please start a new thread and attach it. Also please start a new thread and attach the score for which autoplace of lyrics is not working correctly. We want to fix problems but need people to report them with enough details to allows us to can investigate.

I have tried both 3.04 and 3.05 but one longer score (circa 700 bars) I am working on has problems.... It works fine in 2.3.2, but on version 3.x it will only play the first hundred bars or so and then refuses to play any further. The piece only uses 5 parts.... I am still working on it, but obviously, if you cannot work beyond a certain point in a score it is a bit of an issue! I will continue using 2.3.2 for now.

I have tried several times to solve error problems as in the screenshot that I attached by replacing some dll files, running a Windows 8.1 system restore. But it still can't. Can anyone give a solution?
I use Windows 8.1 32bit